Monty Python's 'dead parrot' sketch is nation's favourite

The Ministry of Silly Walks and the Fish-Slapping Dance also make it into the
nation's top 10 Monty Python sketches

'It has ceased to be': Monty Python's Dead Parrot sketch

By Telegraph reporters and PA

4:42PM BST 10 Jul 2014

Monty Python's ''dead parrot'' sketch has been named the nation's most-loved routine by the comedy troupe.

The team, currently performing a number of sell-out reunion shows in London, were thought to be at their finest with the scene in which John Cleese tries to return a dead ''Norwegian blue'' parrot to a shop.

Second in a poll of 2,000 adults, comissioned to mark the screening on the final live show from the O2 Arena on TV channel Gold on July 20, was the Lumberjack Song, while the Ministry of Silly Walks came third.

Steve North, general manager of Gold, said: ''It's clear from our research that Monty Python has crossed the generations, 45 years on from the very first series.''